December 24th

Some more details are emerging about the Informix Tech Day in Strasbourg. Here is the announcement in English (mostly)..

We are very pleased to announce the first pan-European InformixTechDay!

This is going to be a one-day technical training event. Classes will have both beginner level and more advanced levels. Speakers will cover theory (database theory, architecture) and real field experience.

We hope to have French, English and German speakers and hope to have 3 tracks (one in each language).

December 18th

A lot of people will have some time off in the next few weeks. Maybe it's a good time to relax and read something that is not directly related to our day to day work. Here is a suggestion for easy and fun reading:

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard P. Feynman

ISBN 0-7382-0349-1

Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning physicist that has had an interesting live. If you have never heard of him, you should read this set of short stories. It is fun and motivating. Just what's needed to relax during a vacation.

Fernando mentioned that there is dbinfo('utc_to_datetime', ...) that provides the same translation I did in the SPL code. The thing is that it does not provide quite the same translation. The difference is that it looks at the system timezone and takes it into consideration in the conversion.